Akai S1000

An oldie but a goodie. Akai's great sampler of the late eighties! It
actually still stacks up pretty well even today! A 16-bit, 22kHz to
44.1kHz sampler with 2MB to 32MB of RAM. Editing and programming the
S1000 is a very good precursor to the advanced S3000 series. There are lots of advanced edit
capabilities for looping, truncating, sample merging, time comp/exp,
tuning and even analog-like parameters to control its filters and
envelopes. Individual outputs for each of the 16 voices, stereo mix out,
stereo input, MIDI, and trigger inputs round out this machine as a
professional vintage-status sampler that still proves to be very useful
even today! It is used by Moby, The Chemical Brothers, SkyLab,
Scanner, Fluke, Nick Rhodes, Fatboy Slim, LTJ Bukem, Mr. Oizo, Crystal
Method, Pet Shop Boys, Gary Numan, Future Sound of London, Jean-Michel
Jarre, Vangelis, Mouse on Mars, and Apollo 440.

The S1000KB was a nice big keyboard version of this mega-sampler. It
featured a 61-note keyboard with velocity and aftertouch sensitivity and
room for an 80MB hard disk. SCSI and digital interfaces were available
on both keyboard and rack versions. Other variations include the
S1000PB playback-only unit and the S1000HD with its built-in 40MB hard
disk.

Following the S1000 came the S1100 (1990) which boasted up to 32MB of
sampling with 24-bit internal processing! Also on-board were a SCSI
interface, digital effects, AES/EBU digital output, SMPTE reader/gen,
and optional hard-disk recording.

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